Reflections on "Radicals in Their Own Time: Four Hundred Years of Struggle for Liberty and Equal Justice in America" (Cambridge Univ. Press 2011)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Michael Eric Dyson Show Interview

Interviewed yesterday about Radicals in Their Own Time with Michael Eric Dyson, whose radio show airs on PBS stations in Seattle, Washington, Baltimore, Detroit and a number of other cities. It was nice to do a longer-format interview to explain the book in greater depth.

The interview is available HERE - it's the last 20 minutes of the hour long program.

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Testimonials about "Radicals in Their Own Time"

Michael Lawrence’s book is a genuine tour-de-force, linking five Americans across four centuries who fought to improve their world.A novel, exciting, and inspiring book, it is a must read for all Americans who need to know more about their radical history.Lawrence has produced vivid and unforgettable snapshot portraits of five crucially important figures, who are not as recognizable as Franklin, Washington, or Jefferson, but whose impact on American history nevertheless cannot now be underestimated.His slice through history, highlighting the life and work of Roger Williams, Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. E. B. Dubois, and Vine Deloria, demonstrates the commanding influence of those who have taken risks for all of us to ensure that our ongoing struggle to achieve the Constitution’s guarantees of liberty, justice, and equality will ultimately, someday, prevail.

Jack FruchtmanProfessor of Political ScienceDirector, Program in Law and American CivilizationTowson University

Liberty never expands without brave souls who stand up to the powerful forces that seek to constrict it. Students today know only a few of the names of those battlers and fewer still of their stories. Radicalsin Their Own Times will open their eyes to characters they’ve never met, but whom they will find valuable tutors in the ways and costs of expanding human rights. This splendidly written book is a vivid and valuable contribution to our understanding of the struggles that yielded the rights and freedoms we too often take for granted.

G. Calvin MackenzieGoldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government

Colby College

It has been more than half a century since John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage -- now Michael Anthony Lawrence repopulates American legal history with five forgotten (or at least sometimes forgotten) heroes. ... As Lawrence sweeps across four centuries of American history, he causes us to rethink American traditions of legal, religious, and political thought. And he reminds us all that American history is frequently more concerned with toppling hierarchy than supporting it.